4. Name the exact emotions you are feeling.

Researcher Matthew Lieberman from UCLA discovered that when you directly state out loud that you’re feeling a negative emotion — like anger — you can calm this emotion by 50% — because it halves your “amygdala activation” to consciously observe your emotions.

I want you to double up the benefits of this halving. After you’ve named a negative emotion, rename it with a positive.

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